Climate and Energy

Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that President Trump will struggle to do away with.

The EPA administrator says he is rolling back dozens of environmental rules, including those crucial to California programs on climate change and electric vehicles, and closing offices that worked to lower pollution in poor communities.

The added capacity for the year was the most from any single source in more than two decades.

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A flurry of Executive Orders (EO) by newly inaugurated President Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, effectively collapsed the rationale of the...

Chris Wright is an oil and gas executive who doesn't believe in climate change. Trump wants him to lead the Department of Energy.

With Donald Trump expected to turn back climate progress, here's what Biden should focus on for the remainder of his presidential term.

Despite Donald Trump's focus on fossil fuels, his return to the White House won't derail clean energy, analysts and activists say.

Ali Zaidi sees momentum for the clean energy transition, even as GOP nominee Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers are hoping to roll back President Joe Biden's climate law.

While VP Harris supports the Green New Deal, Donald Trump pledges to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.

The Heritage Foundation's Mandate for Leadership would serve as a policy blueprint for the first 180 days if Trump—or another Republican—were to gain control of the White House in January 2025.Close down the Department of Energy's renewable energy office. Cut cash flow to the Environmental Protectio...

HARRISBURG — The group tasked by Gov. Josh Shapiro with developing a state-level plan to fight climate change met for the first time this week, a step the Democrat promised to take when he questioned his predecessor's strategy to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil fuel state to adopt carbon

Scientists say countries need to cut emissions far deeper to prevent catastrophic warming. That fact will hang over delegates when they meet later this year at the annual U.N. climate talks

Top White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi privately met last year with three leaders of the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute, an eco group pushing gas stove bans.

New IEA report finds countries in Europe and Americas are quickly replacing fossil fuels, while Asia moves slowly.

America's approach to loss and damage financing for developing nations is eerily reminiscent of the fossil fuel industry's delay tactics for stalling climate policy.

By decoupling carbon emissions from economic growth, countries are showing how we can fight climate change and fight poverty — two COP27 goals — simultaneously.

"…the plan was just a chain of sandcastles that waves of reality have washed away" said Amin H. Nasser, denouncing the present energy transition in a speech, says Friends of Science.

Gina McCarthy, the top White House domestic climate adviser will step down on Sept. 16, completing a move that had been expected for months.

Why models could be over- (or under-!) estimating the climate impact of the Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act would go a long way toward helping achieve climate goals in the US and globally. If it passes into law, it will cut US emissions drastically. But there will be more work left to do.